April 2026
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And so we head for the poll with HMG, Hannah Mary Goodlad basically saying ‘vote for me, I’m not really SNP, and anyway, it’s only for five years,’ and Emma Macdonald, channelling Big Al Carmichael, claiming that the Liberal Democrats are the only barrier to evil Indy-dependence and rampant Swinneyism. HME – the Hypnotic Mammary…
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Phew! Teeth have been gnashed, tushkers brandished and fiddle necks splintered this week as the Holyrood campaign in Shetland reached a Rayburn chimney-fire of heat. There has been nothing nasty like it in the isles since those pesky pirates buried a fellow crew member up to the neck on the shores of North Roe and…
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Making plans for Nigel Nigel Farage coming to Shetland (by private aeroplane, no less) for less than three hours was the political equivalent of a stray dog lifting its leg to mark its territory. He was dressed up as a gamekeeper and accompanied by Reform constituency candidate Vic Currie, who looks more AI generated in…
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You can listen to me reading the whole newsletter by clicking on the wee arrow above. Takes about seven minutes. I don’t remember the flat in Walmer Crescent, in that now-very-nearly-genteel Greek Thomson curve off Paisley Road West that was dad and mum’s first home in Glasgow. It would have been crumbling and smoke-blackened in…
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Transports of joy. Saying goodbye to two wheels You can listen to the whole of what follows by clicking on the audio file above. I think I was only allowed to have that Vespa 150 GL at the age of 15 because it didn’t run. It had no logbook, no MOT, a rusty frame, and…
